it is not late, but i would suggest u not to work for having the 1 yrs working experience. if u go America, u will need to have a ESL test first which test ur english level. if ur english lv is low, may be the school counselor will send u to a lower grade to have more time for u to learn english. and u have lot of the college test for going into college, like SAT. the college will depend on ur test scoure of those test and decide to let u go in or not. i will suggest u to be in grade 11 if u want to study in America.